Really? You don't remember a couple years ago there was a big uproar over James Frey's "memoir" called "A Million Tiny Pieces." I never read it, but it's apparently pretty harrowing, and it was a bestseller and an Oprah bookclub book, and then it came out that a lot of the events in his book didn't fit a true timeline of his life, and finally he admitted he'd fabricated parts of it. It created a huge discussion in the writing community about memoir, fiction vs. nonfiction, and creative license. Basically, he's considered a scumbag.

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